conference paper
Wireless Network Secrecy with Public Feedback
2008
2008 46Th Annual Allerton Conference On Communication, Control, And Computing
In this paper we consider secret communication between two special nodes ("source" and "destination") in a wireless network with authenticated relays: the message communicated to the destination is to be kept information-theoretically (unconditionally) secret from any eavesdropper within a class. A public feedback channel from the destination to all nodes may or may not be available. We focus on a one-relay network with a bottleneck link between the source and the relay to illustrate the ideas. For this particular network, we derive the rate-equivocation capacity region when the public feedback channel is absent, and an achievable secret key rate when public feedback is present.